Will Machine Learning Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life?

Will Machine Learning Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life? Applying deep learning techniques to previously analyzed datasets revealed undetected signals of interest PRESS RELEASE DATE January 30, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI... More

Will Machine Learning Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life? Applying deep learning techniques to previously analyzed datasets revealed undetected signals of interest PRESS RELEASE DATE January 30, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org Waterfall plots of the eight signals of interest. Each panel has a width of 2,800 Hz and the x axes are referenced to the centre of the snippet where the signal is found, as reported in column 3 of Table 1. View larger image. January 30, 2023, Mountain View, CA – When pondering the probability of discovering technologically advanced extraterrestrial life, the question that often arises is, “if they’re out there, why haven’t we found them yet?” And often, the response is that we have only searched a tiny portion of the galaxy. Further, algorithms developed decades ago for the earliest digital computers can be outdated and inefficient when applied to modern petabyte-scale datasets. Now, research published i Less